History

The European Federation of Catholic Married
Priests (FE) is one of the federations descended from the International Federation
of Catholic Married Priests (FIPCM). This latter
enabled the gathering together of married priests and their wives from around the
world for more than twenty years. Its
history has been written by Bert Peters and this document is available in
French and English. At the Congress of
Atlanta in 1999, then at the General Assembly of Leganes (Madrid) in 2002
the decision was taken to develop towards a structure which was the
“Confederation” of continental federations and that restructuring was put into
effect at the Wiesbaden Congress of 2005.
There are now actually in existence four federations of married priests:
the Latin-American Federation, the Philippines Federation, the European
Federation, and the North Atlantic Federation.